Château de Labeau

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Le château en bref

The Château Labeau, in Saint-Simon (Cantal), combines a rectangular main building with a stair tower and a lean-to wing. The seigneury of Labeau is attested as early as 1333 with Pierre de Tourtoulou; in 1508 it was jointly held by Antoinette du Cheylar, who married a Marcenat, and it remained in the Labeau family until the 17th century. The present château was built in the 18th–19th centuries by the Colinet family: Joseph Colinet (1695–1763), procurator and first consul, ennobled in 1751; his son Pierre-Joseph Colinet (1726–1792), criminal judge and consul of Aurillac, who married Anne de Vigier d'Orcet in 1764 and died during the Revolution; then François-Toussaint Colinet de Labeau (1771–1809), who married Marianne Roquet in 1799. The estate later passed by marriage to the Sclafer, Gaches de Venzac and then Fortet families.